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Mexican Folk Music

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The regional traditional music of Mexico: the sones of Veracruz, the Huasteca and the Isthmus, the unaccompanied singing of the northern desert, indigenous song traditions and the string ensembles that grew into mariachi. Spanish, indigenous and African elements combine differently in every region.

Mexico · emerged 1600s · peak 20th century

Also called: música folclórica mexicana, mexican traditional music

History

Colonial fandangos and church music mixed with indigenous and African traditions across the regions of New Spain; after the Revolution the state promoted the sones as national culture, and mariachi and ranchera became their commercial heirs.

What it sounds like

Regional sones with distinct string ensembles
Zapateado footwork on a wooden platform
Falsetto and improvised verse
Indigenous song traditions

Beneath it: canto cardenche, chilena, pirekua, son calentano, son huasteco, son istmeño, son jarocho

Beside it: ranchera, regional mexicano